January 5, 2013

Lecture

Learn about the artists who would become known as the Abstract Expressionists, who looked inside themselves to create a new way of painting that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York.

January 12, 2013

Lecture

As American youths challenged their elders by protesting the Vietnam War and established cultural traditions, young artists confounded their elders’ traditions by making art inspired by everyday life from a myriad of materials.

January 19, 2013

Lecture

Which is more important: the object or the idea? Come and view the results of this debate through the work of artists such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Agnes Martin, and Robert Mangold.

January 26, 2013

Lecture

Artists of the 1970s came up with a variety of ways to reintroduce representational images into art; stories, imagination, and expression were all resurrected by artists such as Neil Jenney, Susan Rothenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and Julian Schnabel.